cPanel Website Hosting Uncovered

For your information, it's useful to be aware that the majority of the cPanel-based hosting offerings on the contemporary web hosting market are provided by a quite inconsiderable marketing niche (when it comes to annual cash flow) dubbed reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-scale marketing niche, which supplies a vast amount of different web hosting trademarks, yet supplying the very same services: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Due to the fact that at least 98% of the website hosting offerings on the entire website hosting marketplace furnish precisely the same service: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel hosting price tags are similar. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other hosting platform/web hosting CP choice. So, there is just one single fact: out of more than two hundred thousand web hosting brand names in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2%! Less than two percent, remark that one...

200,000 "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet differently named

The hosting "diversity" and the website hosting "offerings" Google presents to all of us come down to merely one and the same thing: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different web hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely a normal fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website creation procedures and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the individual domains and web pages. Are you ready to make your hosting pick? Is there any web hosting alternative you can pick? Of course there is, these days there are more than 200,000 website hosting corporations out there. Officially. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200,000+ unique web hosting brand names around the world will offer you exactly the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled in a different way, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how great the diversity on the present web hosting market is... Full stop.

The hosting LOTTO we are all participating in

Simple arithmetic shows that to pick a non-cPanel based web hosting corporation is a mammoth stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in fifty chance that an event like that will occur! Less than 1 in 50...

The positive and negative aspects of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be cruel with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly fulfilled most web hosting market requirements. In short, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain to host. But, if you have more domains...

Inconvenience Number One: A moronic domain name folder structure

If you have 2 or more domain names, though, be very cautious not to erase fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are very simple to erase on the web server, because they all are created into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the very famous public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to delete the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how marvelous cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

Are you becoming confused? We certainly are!

Weak Side Number 2: The same mail folder system

The mail folder arrangement on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the very same error twice?!? The admin chaps firmly fortify their belief in God when managing the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to botch things up too irreparably.

Negative Side Number 3: A total absence of domain name administration tools

Do we have to bring up the thorough shortage of a modern domain name administration tool - a location where you can: register/transfer/renew/park or administer domain names, modify domains' Whois info, secure the Whois details, change/set up name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" GUI at all. That's a major predicament. An unjustifiable one, we want to point out...

Inconvenience Number Four: Multiple login locations (min 2, max three)

What about the demand for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support management system? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based hosting vendor. Sometimes, on the basis of the billing system (principally created for cPanel only) the cPanel hosting distributor is utilizing, the ardent users can end up with 2 extra logins (1: the billing transaction/domain management system; 2: the ticket support GUI), ending up with a total of three login places (including cPanel).

Negative Aspect Number Five: More than a hundred and twenty web hosting Control Panel sections to get acquainted with... fast

cPanel offers to your attention more than one hundred and twenty departments inside the web hosting CP. It's a fine idea to get to know each of them. And you'd better become familiar with them rapidly... That's inordinately insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel hosting service providers:

As far as we know, it's not the year 2001, is it? Mark that one as well...